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Mujika is demon!Jesus & other possible Bible references in TPN

It’s time people to get ready to have your minds blown again, my newest crazy theory post is here!

Disclaimer: This post contains manga spoilers up to and including chapter 127. Also, I don’t mean to offend anyone’s religion, I’m just making comparisons out of interest, and I am getting most of my info from wikipedia. Chapter 127 full fan translation dropped, and not just for me, but for others as well it has instantly stuck out like a sore thumb how much Mujika’s story parallelled Jesus from the New Testament

The facts: 1) Musica’s very existence is an unexplained miracle, as she is able to do things no other demons can (keep her form without eating humans), and none knows where she came from (she is most likely of common birth).

2) She can and have been performing straight up miracles of “curing” demons of their hunger, and saving them from devolving into unintelligence.

3) What’s more, she has been passing her power to her followers and supporters, who can spread her “cure”, and teachings of the need to not eat humans in order to save even more demons from starvation and devolving.

4) Her blood taking away the demons’ hunger is basically a literal take on these Bible verses with illustration added as well:

5) She was persecuted and ordered to be killed by the rulers out of no fault of her own.

6) If you are still not convinced, she was LITERALLY called the demon MESSIAH by Norman, and I honestly don’t know if I could make it clearer...

It may seem a bit random at first, but I have already mentioned Bible references in TPN in my Mujika is Medusa theory post, so this isn’t really out of the blue. As a bit of a reminder, or if you haven’t seen that post here are the possible references:

1) Minerva’s mythology book has a snake and apple just like the story in Genesis.

2) Mujika herself is later associated with an apple on a cover.

3) The Promised Neverland may be a reference to the Promised Land from Exodus, as well as to Neverland from Peter Pan. This isn’t just a similarity in name, since their demon god is responsible for the PROMISE that we know ensures the NEVERLAND where no human child gets to grow up (since they get eaten). Right, that’s it, TPN is a mashup of Peter Pan and the Bible.

There we go, I have made my crazy and outlandish claim just like before, but can I give any even remotely believeable evidence for it?

Well, for the Peter Pan part, I have already made a huge post on the list of possible references, so please head to my Theory Directory where you can find a link. If that doesn’t work for you, I will also reblog this post with a link.

As for the Bible part, well, is there any evidence beyond Mujika? Ok, how about we play a small game. Try pronouncing Son-ju and then St. John. Hear any similarity? Am I messing with you? Well, yes and no. How about you take a look at the wiki info on St John, Jesus’ apostole (not to be confused with John the baptist).

Sooo, wasn’t Son-ju the only follower of Mujika left alive? What a strange coincidence... Then didn’t Son-ju also wear a fish shaped cloak pin? I thought it signified that they were underwater, but St. John was a fisherman... 

Oh yeah, and isn’t it funny how we have James, Peter and Andrew all feature in St. John’s description? Weren’t there some characters in TPN also called these names...?

What’s even more interesting is John and James having been brothers, but John surviving James for a long time. I find that interesting because I recently discussed a theory by @fyria-hans  that Sonju may have been the one wearing the Minerva cape and sending that morse coded message to the kids to stay put where they were.

Since it was morse code, they didn’t hear a voice, and in those panels the wide shouldered frame and those shoes really looked like Sonju’s. We know he had justification for wanting the cattle children to survive “in the wild”, and he also most likely had the skill to create fake tracks to throw off Andrew. So it is a possibility that he had been James’ supporter... The other interesting fact was that both St. James and James Ratri died first out of the cast. Btw, fun fact about St. Peter: he holds the keys to heaven. Isn’t that a bit like how Peter Ratri has control over the access to the human world, which would be pretty much heaven to the cattlechildren?

Oh btw, did you know that there were two apostoles called James? So the other one was known as the Lesser James? Hm, isn’t Norman kind of a smaller, younger version of James Ratri right now? Oh yeah, and did you know that St. Andrew was the brother of St. Peter? And he is also a patron of fishermen, farmers, miners and butchers?

Hmmm, sooo we he a small number of coincidences, surely there won’t be more! Right...? RIGHT?!

Well, you might know that St. Matthew is associated with an angel

Hmm, but where did we see angels in TPN?

Ah riiight, in Minerva’s famous mythology book! And isn’t it funny how there is a CUP next to that angel... Didn’t we just have MUJIKA associated with a CUP (of blood she offered) this chapter?!

Hmm, and wasn’t there a character who had a strange connection to Mujika we didn’t understand? That she showed up in his “DYING” MEMORIES? Here is another fun fact.

LEUVIS?! But didn’t I say in my Peter Pan theory that Leuvis was associated with the Lost Boy Curly? Am I contradicting myself? Well, lucky for me, we also have this:

So the authors have confirmed that their characters can hold multiple references, and my guess is that I may have just managed to find 2 out of 3 for Leuvis ;D (It’s funny how Shirai-san wanted to be so secretive about the references, right?) Similarly, I don’t think there is any problem going through the other characters and finding references to them. So let’s dive in further!

So there is another Apostole who is called JUDE (Thaddeus). That name bears perhaps a passing resemblance to LUCE, or not? How about the things associated with this apostole?

Wasn’t Luce a bit of a LOST CAUSE? And didn’t his servants weild CLUBS? Also, what about the time Emma threw an AXE at him? Hah, these coincidences sure are getting trippy, right?

While we are on the topic of Luce, I would like to point out that before he died he made this little comment:

Huuh, so his dad is some important mofo? But we sure haven’t seen or heard anything of him ever since... right? Well, how about you compare these panels for me?

This dude who murdered Mujika’s followers suuuure bears a passing resemblance to Luce, except he looks much more buff and badass... and older...

But lets not get sidetracked! We were looking at apostles, so how about I bring up the wiki info on another one?

Funny, didn’t I associate NOUMA (isn’t that slightly close to THOMA?) and NOUS with the Twins in my Peter Pan analysis? Btw, do you know that St. Thomas died by the spear, so he is associated with it? I Thought Nouma and Nous had spears... But there is a Thoma among the kids as well! Huh, but isn’t he always with Lani? Acting as if they were something like twins... huh... Weird, but let’s look at another apostole!

So Bartholomew doesn’t sound much like Bayon, except they both start with “Ba”, but did you know that St. Bartholomew, among other things is a patron of butchers and TRAPPERS. Huh, didn’t Bayon kinda enable the trapping and hunting of cattlechildren like wild animals at Goldy Pond...?

Also, yeah, we have a Nat among the kids again, and we also have a Phil... Did you know that we have a Mark as well? While Mark wasn’t an apostole, he has some written passages in the Bible...

But lets not get hung up on a couple of names that are similar sounding! Although I can’t help but wonder what could be the name of the demon king who ordered the death of Mujika... and if it sounds anything like PONTIUS PILATE who ordered the death of Jesus? It’s a shame we don’t have his name :(

But do you know a funny fact about Pilate? He was a ROMAN prefect. Huh, didn’t we have a handful of roman references in TPN? Like mirrored LATIN, or MINERVA, a ROMAN GODDESS?!

Hmm, you know what is a funny thought though? If Mujika is demon!Jesus, and we know that we have a demon!God (the one with the demon gylph written name, called just HIM in the anime), then I wonder if the analogy extends further. You know, God has sent Jesus to the human world to be the saviour of humankind, but then the humans in charge chose to persecute and kill him... although Jesus didn’t die permanently. So I can’t help but wonder if it wasn’t demon!God who sent Mujika as demon!Jesus to be the saviour of demonkind, only to find that the demons in charge had the bright idea of persecuting and trying to kill her... but luckily she isn’t dead even though everyone thought she died! Well, if that’s the case, I bet demon!God is facepalming right now. And if that analogy holds, it may also stand that the demons are an analogy for the jews (who had their PROMISED LAND from God, while demons have their PROMISED NEVERLAND from demon!God (which also fits with my idea that demon!God used their powers to literally create the demon world below the deep sea... you can read more on this in another post of mine)) whereas the cattlechildren are an analogy for the gentiles (non-jew). If you think I’m done and ready to finish this post on that crazy thought, then you are WRONG. Some of you may have read my post on my thoughts that Mujika may be a Medusa reference. If you haven’t, just look it up either in my Theory Directory, or in the links I will put in a reblog to this post. I was anxiously awaiting this chapters to see if it would disprove that theory or confirm it. And I will be honest, I was at first disappointed with this chapter, ‘cause like a damned fool, I was expecting to see snakes, or something about petrifying gaze, BUT then I looked further into the Medusa lore, and felt like an idiot and slapping myself. Why?

Medusa had 2 sisters in the myths, together they were known as the Gorgon sisters. But Medusa was different to the other two, and her name meant ruler/queen. Hmmm, doesn’t this panel look kiiinda like 3 sisters?

Also, just in case you missed it, I have circled a jar there that looks eerily similar to the golden water jar that the kids have. Tsk, all these coincidences that I keep spotting!

So the other thing about Medusa is that in all of the myths the goddess MINERVA wants to kill her out of no fault of Medusa. Didn’t we kinda have someone in TPN right now with a MINERVA alias say something similar?

Oh hello there Norman. Funny that you would say that... In the myth Minerva doesn’t kill Medusa herself, but aids the hero Perseus who cuts off Medusa’s head, which ends up on Minerva’s famous shield the Aegis. In many sources it is said that the shield is used to petrify Minerva’s enemies. But Medusa had one more funny quality about her that had the interest of Minerva in the mythology:

“ The character of Medusa can also be seen to come along with some qualities that emerge after her tale of origin. For example, one half of Medusa’s BLOOD is HEALING – and so, along with her petrifying ability, she could also heal. Blood taken from the veins on her LEFT was POISONOUS, while blood taken from her RIGHT could RESTORE THE DEAD TO LIFE.”

Huh, didn’t we just learn that Mujika’s blood is SPECIAL? That it can “CURE” the demons from their hunger of humans, but it is also DANGEROUS for  the demons in charge and for the humans in case the “cured” demons decided to still eat humans? Btw, isn’t it funny how Mujika draws blood from her right in this panel when healing those villagers?

Maybe I didn’t need to be so worried about my Mujika Medusa theory after all...

[psychedelicflyingshark]

I saw a theory about the butterfly motifs in the tpn manga and I wanted to add something but I can't find it damn

[couldnt-think-of-a-better-name]

I have noticed the darkened tips of her hair too, and while I don't see snake heads there, they do seem to evoke a kinda blood soaked feeling.

So I think your idea may be close to the truth, but perhaps the reference is a bit more subtle. We have seen snakes one other time, inside those caves:

(On the panels next to Don you can even see the tips of those roots looking darker, perhaps bloodied as well?)

Then Minerva's book makes the reference even clearer.

Then watch how they escape them:

So it seems like the "snakes" fall asleep from the cold, but they are also immobile at the wall, where they look braided... just like Musica's hair.

So perhaps Musica braids her hair to keep her "snakes" tamed? And when in the past Musica let her hair loose, it attacked people, and the tips on that page are slick with blood?

But alternatively it could be your explanation that is right, and maybe the tips are bloody since they just got "decapitated"?

Either case, I am looking forward to next week to find out more! 😁

Mujika could be a Medusa reference?

I am not going to post spoiler pictures, but I just want to talk about the chapter 126 spoiler leaks before I go to sleep and we might have a full chapter.

So looking at the new material, I just had a thought: what if I was wrong about Mujika, and she is actually a reference to the Medusa myth?

There seems to be a lot more thematic evidence for this one, than a Peter Pan association.

I have recently agreed with @fyria-hans that Sonju and Musica may have been Minerva’s associates, and I just read @linkspooky ’s analysis on Athena and Minerva mythology. So I thought, if Mujika was possibly associated with Minerva, could she be associated with the roman mythology?

As I googled up Minerva, I saw that there was a poem with mythology including her called METAMORPHOSIS written by the ROMAN poet OVID. Not only is it an interesting title with respect to our demons that can change shape, we have also seen mirrored latin writing in the manga before, as well as Minerva being a roman goddess.

So there are direct references to roman culture, and I thought, could be more there? Well @vobomon mentioned to me that Metamorphosis has passages on the owl of Minerva, and how they used to be human before they were transformed into an owl.

Well, just to say, I have been puzzled for the longest time about the HUMAN FEATURES on these owls on the colour spreads…

Actually, you know what, in the first spread, Emma almost looks like she is TURNING INTO AN OWL… So what was that Metamorphosis passage again?

I think we are getting a visual reference to that myth there… but at this point I am not sure what else to conclude on it, so I will just leave it there.

Now @linkspooky also thought that the deep sea cave with snakes in Minerva’s adventure book was a reference for the Medusa myth, but you know WHO ELSE LIVED IN THAT CAVE?!

MUJIKA (and Sonju)

Until now, with her hair braided, I wasn’t too suspicious, but the new leaks have Mujika’s hair out, and those strands are DEFINITELY reminiscent to snakes for me!

I have noted before that Mujika’s dress looked liked scales… but both fish and snakes have scales!

Oh btw, I went back to when Norman introduced the idea of demons having been associated with mythical creatures, and I noticed a CERTAIN EXAMPLE IN THE BACKGROUND:

OOOOOH BOOOYYY

I felt the Cuvitidala and crocodile references were so strong since that explanation illustration also alluded to it, but it looks like there might have been another clue!

Btw the new chapter leaks also suggests that the rest of Mujika’s clan was murdered, while she was forced into hiding and or captured.

I looked it up, and the Medusa myth is most likely based on a real life MASSACRE of hellenistic people, possibly happening due to a lot of priestesses being killed with ritual masks of a goddess…

What is more, in the Metamorphosis, when Medusa is killed by the human hero Perseus (aided by the gods with fantastical items), from her slain body, the winged horse Pegasus is born, as well as a giant who wields a golden sword, Khrysaor.

Hmm, didn’t Sonju have a (very fine) HORSE?! Also, isn’t he kinda… tall? And carries a weapon (of unkown colour).

Pretty interesting coincidences right? One more thing though, volume 6 that has all the Sonju and Mujika chapters, plus their cave on the cover, on the inside cover has a Minerva OWL.

I guess that might be a reference after all that Mujika is related to Minerva mythology… which would then be Medusa.

Btw if Mujika and Sonju are also William Minerva associates, it might stand to reason that Minerva’s associates would know about their ancient, hidden village… an info that could be passed to Norman!

After all, Mujika is about the size of humans, and that ancient village looks hella well proportioned for humans! If her clan was massacred a while ago, that would also explain how it would have ended up being conveniently abandoned!

Oh yeah, and one more thing. I have pointed out before that snakes/reptiles seem to have some sort of SPECIAL EXCEPTION to normal demon evolution. Remember that this picture has an x at snakes?

However, if Mujika’s clan is really the snake clan, then the X may actually just mean that they went EXTINCT (having been massacred), well as far as everyone (including Norman) knows. They may have also been massacred since they didn’t require eating humans for intellect? I wonder how that is related to the snake theme…

Btw, in the leak it seems like Norman also says “so she with the cursed blood survived?” . Did you know that Medusa according to the myth used to be a beautiful girl, until MINERVA CURSED her to have SNAKE hair (and look so hideous that anyone who looked at her directly turned to stone). Funny coincidences, right?

Btw; here is an illustration of how Mujika eats: by detaching her jaw and swallowing the bird whole. JUST LIKE SNAKES. (I am not sure if it’s the same for other demons… those nobles like Bayon certainly liked to use cutlery at the table!)

TL;DR: In before it turns out Mujika is the source of the Medusa myth

(I will add more info when the chapter is out)

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Oh yeah, I have noticed the Minerva owl's two coloured eyes and I have been wondering about its significance as well!

However, the trouble is that apart from the one picture you included of Mujika, every single other panel of her has white eyes. So I wonder if it was just a blip, or if demon eyes can change colour?

I have found a demon that is consistently drawn with black eyes, and that's the one pursuing the kids, and later killed by Sunjo.

What's interesting as well is that we also have the basilisk myth, like in Harry Potter, where you turn to stone if you look directly in their eyes, and that's also a snake...

You are right that there are a LOT of eye motifs, so I also think that the different colours of Minerva's owl's eyes hold significance, but I don't think that we have figured out what that significance is yet.

I will look through the manga to see if I can spot any pattern to the demon eye colours as well, and I will also double check the Medusa myth. However I am not sure if the original Medusa myth is that closely related to eyes...

Thank you for adding those observations and points!

I am very excited to see if there will be a link or not with Medusa, it would be super cool if there was!

Mujika thoughts

I am not going to post spoiler pictures, but I just want to talk about the chapter 126 spoiler leaks before I go to sleep and we might have a full chapter.

So looking at the new material, I just had a thought: what if I was wrong about Mujika, and she is actually a reference to the Medusa myth?

There seems to be a lot more thematic evidence for this one, than a Peter Pan association.

I have recently agreed with @fyria-hans that Sonju and Musica may have been Minerva’s associates, and I just read @linkspooky ’s analysis on Athena and Minerva mythology. So I thought, if Mujika was possibly associated with Minerva, could she be associated with the roman mythology?

As I googled up Minerva, I saw that there was a poem with mythology including her called METAMORPHOSIS written by the ROMAN poet OVID. Not only is it an interesting title with respect to our demons that can change shape, we have also seen mirrored latin writing in the manga before, as well as Minerva being a roman goddess.

So there are direct references to roman culture, and I thought, could be more there? Well @vobomon mentioned to me that Metamorphosis has passages on the owl of Minerva, and how they used to be human before they were transformed into an owl.

Well, just to say, I have been puzzled for the longest time about the HUMAN FEATURES on these owls on the colour spreads…

Actually, you know what, in the first spread, Emma almost looks like she is TURNING INTO AN OWL… So what was that Metamorphosis passage again?

I think we are getting a visual reference to that myth there… but at this point I am not sure what else to conclude on it, so I will just leave it there.

Now @linkspooky also thought that the deep sea cave with snakes in Minerva’s adventure book was a reference for the Medusa myth, but you know WHO ELSE LIVED IN THAT CAVE?!

MUJIKA (and Sonju)

Until now, with her hair braided, I wasn’t too suspicious, but the new leaks have Mujika’s hair out, and those strands are DEFINITELY reminiscent to snakes for me!

I have noted before that Mujika’s dress looked liked scales… but both fish and snakes have scales!

Oh btw, I went back to when Norman introduced the idea of demons having been associated with mythical creatures, and I noticed a CERTAIN EXAMPLE IN THE BACKGROUND:

OOOOOH BOOOYYY

I felt the Cuvitidala and crocodile references were so strong since that explanation illustration also alluded to it, but it looks like there might have been another clue!

Btw the new chapter leaks also suggests that the rest of Mujika’s clan was murdered, while she was forced into hiding and or captured.

I looked it up, and the Medusa myth is most likely based on a real life MASSACRE of hellenistic people, possibly happening due to a lot of priestesses being killed with ritual masks of a goddess…

What is more, in the Metamorphosis, when Medusa is killed by the human hero Perseus (aided by the gods with fantastical items), from her slain body, the winged horse Pegasus is born, as well as a giant who wields a golden sword, Khrysaor.

Hmm, didn’t Sonju have a (very fine) HORSE?! Also, isn’t he kinda… tall? And carries a weapon (of unkown colour).

Pretty interesting coincidences right? One more thing though, volume 6 that has all the Sonju and Mujika chapters, plus their cave on the cover, on the inside cover has a Minerva OWL.

I guess that might be a reference after all that Mujika is related to Minerva mythology… which would then be Medusa.

Btw if Mujika and Sonju are also William Minerva associates, it might stand to reason that Minerva’s associates would know about their ancient, hidden village… an info that could be passed to Norman!

After all, Mujika is about the size of humans, and that ancient village looks hella well proportioned for humans! If her clan was massacred a while ago, that would also explain how it would have ended up being conveniently abandoned!

Oh yeah, and one more thing. I have pointed out before that snakes/reptiles seem to have some sort of SPECIAL EXCEPTION to normal demon evolution. Remember that this picture has an x at snakes?

However, if Mujika’s clan is really the snake clan, then the X may actually just mean that they went EXTINCT (having been massacred), well as far as everyone (including Norman) knows. They may have also been massacred since they didn’t require eating humans for intellect? I wonder how that is related to the snake theme…

Btw, in the leak it seems like Norman also says “so she with the cursed blood survived?” . Did you know that Medusa according to the myth used to be a beautiful girl, until MINERVA CURSED her to have SNAKE hair (and look so hideous that anyone who looked at her directly turned to stone). Funny coincidences, right?

Btw; here is an illustration of how Mujika eats: by detaching her jaw and swallowing the bird whole. JUST LIKE SNAKES. (I am not sure if it’s the same for other demons… those nobles like Bayon certainly liked to use cutlery at the table!)

TL;DR: In before it turns out Mujika is the source of the Medusa myth

(I will add more info when the chapter is out)

[couldnt-think-of-a-better-name]

You are right @just-to-comment-in-fanpages , the disturbing part is that it's mostly implied that Neptuno/Poseidon pretty much raped Medusa in Athena's temple, which had angered the goddess. I sure hope that we are NOT going that far into the mythology references

(Knowing SWJ they probs wouldn't allow even implied rape into their magazine tbh, so I am not too worried actually).

Perhaps there might be more of a figurative screw over, like living under the sea might have affected the snake demons badly?

Either case, I do want to raise a couple more points relating to snakes in the manga, and it's pretty important. While Minerva's adventure book is confirmed to be a guide to the demon world, Minerva's mythology book's purpose is yet to be revealed.

Note that the mythology book not only has warriors, dragons and angels, it also has these images:

SNAKE and APPLE

Those two are most commonly associated with the genesis story of the Bible about the SNAKE SHARING THE FRUIT OF KNOWLEDGE WITH HUMANS AGAINST THE WILL OF GOD.

Humans and the snakes both get punished, the humans are banished from paradise, and the snakes lose their legs and have to "eat dirt for eternity".

We know that I-???? is pretty much worshipped as a God, so what if Musica's clan, who seem to be pretty differently religious to normal demons have comitted sacrilege, maybe even sharing forbidden secrets with the humans, and they got punished for that?

It may even have been the case that it was Mujika’s clan who originally gave away to humans how to defeat demons: that eyes are their weakness. Which could have triggered the situation that forced the demons to form the promise, and in their anger they may have struck out at Mujika’s clan?

These are all just speculations, but there is something that isn't, THIS chapter cover:

I remember thinking waaaay back, why is Mujika associated with the apple here? I thought the apple was associated with the snakes, but I don't see any snakes (OH HOW NAIVE I WAS).

Initially I thought that cover just illustrated that the Earth was divided into half by the promise, but perhaps if Mujika really is part of a snake clan, instead the apple shows that forbidden fruit of eden that the snake SHARED with human kind.

Also @just-to-comment-in-fanpages you have also noted that Exodus has similarities to TPN, and the promise may be a reference to the Promised Land in the Bible. I should research and think about this more now that it seems that Genesis is also likely referenced...

Uh-huh, btw noticed that it was conveniently the snake pages that had ripped out parts? Almost like someone was trying to hide some secrets about them... even more than the rest of the secrets.

I think there is a fair chance with all these hints to actually be a connection between Mujika’s clan and snakes, but as one last thing, here is another volume extra that plays with the visual idea of Mujika’s feet looking snakeish under the reflections of the water... unless it is LITERAL and when Mujika's body touches water it actually TRANSFORMS INTO SNAKES... well, who knows, can't wait to find out though!

Mujika thoughts

I am not going to post spoiler pictures, but I just want to talk about the chapter 126 spoiler leaks before I go to sleep and we might have a full chapter.

So looking at the new material, I just had a thought: what if I was wrong about Mujika, and she is actually a reference to the Medusa myth?

There seems to be a lot more thematic evidence for this one, than a Peter Pan association.

I have recently agreed with @fyria-hans that Sonju and Musica may have been Minerva’s associates, and I just read @linkspooky ’s analysis on Athena and Minerva mythology. So I thought, if Mujika was possibly associated with Minerva, could she be associated with the roman mythology?

As I googled up Minerva, I saw that there was a poem with mythology including her called METAMORPHOSIS written by the ROMAN poet OVID. Not only is it an interesting title with respect to our demons that can change shape, we have also seen mirrored latin writing in the manga before, as well as Minerva being a roman goddess.

So there are direct references to roman culture, and I thought, could be more there? Well @vobomon mentioned to me that Metamorphosis has passages on the owl of Minerva, and how they used to be human before they were transformed into an owl.

Well, just to say, I have been puzzled for the longest time about the HUMAN FEATURES on these owls on the colour spreads…

Actually, you know what, in the first spread, Emma almost looks like she is TURNING INTO AN OWL… So what was that Metamorphosis passage again?

I think we are getting a visual reference to that myth there… but at this point I am not sure what else to conclude on it, so I will just leave it there.

Now @linkspooky also thought that the deep sea cave with snakes in Minerva’s adventure book was a reference for the Medusa myth, but you know WHO ELSE LIVED IN THAT CAVE?!

MUJIKA (and Sonju)

Until now, with her hair braided, I wasn’t too suspicious, but the new leaks have Mujika’s hair out, and those strands are DEFINITELY reminiscent to snakes for me!

I have noted before that Mujika’s dress looked liked scales… but both fish and snakes have scales!

Oh btw, I went back to when Norman introduced the idea of demons having been associated with mythical creatures, and I noticed a CERTAIN EXAMPLE IN THE BACKGROUND:

OOOOOH BOOOYYY

I felt the Cuvitidala and crocodile references were so strong since that explanation illustration also alluded to it, but it looks like there might have been another clue!

Btw the new chapter leaks also suggests that the rest of Mujika’s clan was murdered, while she was forced into hiding and or captured.

I looked it up, and the Medusa myth is most likely based on a real life MASSACRE of hellenistic people, possibly happening due to a lot of priestesses being killed with ritual masks of a goddess…

What is more, in the Metamorphosis, when Medusa is killed by the human hero Perseus (aided by the gods with fantastical items), from her slain body, the winged horse Pegasus is born, as well as a giant who wields a golden sword, Khrysaor.

Hmm, didn’t Sonju have a (very fine) HORSE?! Also, isn’t he kinda… tall? And carries a weapon (of unkown colour).

Pretty interesting coincidences right? One more thing though, volume 6 that has all the Sonju and Mujika chapters, plus their cave on the cover, on the inside cover has a Minerva OWL.

I guess that might be a reference after all that Mujika is related to Minerva mythology… which would then be Medusa.

Btw if Mujika and Sonju are also William Minerva associates, it might stand to reason that Minerva’s associates would know about their ancient, hidden village… an info that could be passed to Norman!

After all, Mujika is about the size of humans, and that ancient village looks hella well proportioned for humans! If her clan was massacred a while ago, that would also explain how it would have ended up being conveniently abandoned!

Oh yeah, and one more thing. I have pointed out before that snakes/reptiles seem to have some sort of SPECIAL EXCEPTION to normal demon evolution. Remember that this picture has an x at snakes?

However, if Mujika’s clan is really the snake clan, then the X may actually just mean that they went EXTINCT (having been massacred), well as far as everyone (including Norman) knows. They may have also been massacred since they didn’t require eating humans for intellect? I wonder how that is related to the snake theme…

Btw, in the leak it seems like Norman also says “so she with the cursed blood survived?” . Did you know that Medusa according to the myth used to be a beautiful girl, until MINERVA CURSED her to have SNAKE hair (and look so hideous that anyone who looked at her directly turned to stone). Funny coincidences, right?

Btw; here is an illustration of how Mujika eats: by detaching her jaw and swallowing the bird whole. JUST LIKE SNAKES. (I am not sure if it’s the same for other demons… those nobles like Bayon certainly liked to use cutlery at the table!)

TL;DR: In before it turns out Mujika is the source of the Medusa myth

(I will add more info when the chapter is out)